In 1884, Charles Taze Russell (a Knights
Templar Mason) founded The Zion's Watchtower Tract Society, now
known as The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, with headquarters in Brooklyn,
New York.

Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves as a modern day theocratic organisation. Because
of this, Witnesses are taught not to vote, salute national flags or participate in
military service. Many Witnesses/conscientious
objectors have suffered terribly for their man-made religion.

They don't celebrate Christmas or Easter. And in some of their earlier publications,
they dubbed mothers day as being "feminist."

In 1945 they stated that Witnesses could not receive a blood transfusion. To do so,
would be "sinful." They also refuse to allow doctors to conduct transfusions, using
their own blood!

Their members are frequently unable and unwilling to reason with non-Witnesses and
insist that only their religion can understand the Holy Scriptures.

They refuse to pray with non-Witnesses.

They are unable to sell their literature because of tax reasons, so donations are
requested. (This may not apply in the UK however).

Throughout the history of the Witnesses, they have repeatedly changed their doctrines,
148 times.

Prior to 1931, the Witnesses had also gone by the names of Millennial Dawn, People's
Pulpit Association, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and The International Bible
Students Association.

Financial facts

In a publication entitled Comments from the Friends, written by a former
Witness, David A. Reeds, information was released concerning the wealth of The
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. In this publication he reports: "The
Watchtower headquarters complex in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City consists
of more than thirty buildings with a current real estate value of $185,998,000.

The report would also go on to show just how handsomely their "theocratic religion"
was doing; with figures like $1,247,999,000 being revealed, and apparently this was
up to $1/4 billion from just over $1,248,000,000.00 in 1990. The article concluded
with: "The figures, not published for the sect's members, are evidently provided
to credit reporting services, so that the firms doing business with the Society will
extend credit."

Membership statistics

At the end of 2001 membership for the Jehovah's Witnesses was 6,117,666 operating
out of 234 countries worldwide.During
2001, Witnesses baptized 235,700 converts worldwide, a decrease from 1996 in which
they baptized 366,579 (-103,148.)

There are over 500,000 full and part-time missionaries worldwide, spending 20-30 hours
a week proselytising. The Witness must attend all five meetings a week (5 hours),
and fill in and complete a monthly time sheet if they wish to remain in the Witnesses.
Hours spent proselytising worldwide each year is 1.1 billion. Yet down from 1996's
figures of 1.4 billion (-3billion.)

I was recently told how 10,000 Catholics in Rome converted over to the Jehovah's Witnesses,
much to the displeasure of their Jesuit pope! Sadly they have simply switched
from one false man made system to another!

Beliefs

Red: Jehovah's Witnesses

Black: Biblical Christianity

They believe that Jehovah God created His Son: "There was, therefore, a time
when Jehovah was all alone in universal space" (Let God Be True, p. 25).

In John 8:58, Jesus said: "Before Abraham was, I AM." Thus Jesus quoting the
I AM from Exodus 3:14, claimed to be the eternal pre-existent God in the flesh!

Every Bible in the world has this reading "I AM," except their 'bible' (the New World
Translation) which blasphemously says: "I have been."

Yet if one turns to John 5:18 in their bible, one will see the deity of Christ
beautifully stated: "On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more
to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling
God his own Father, making himself equal with God."

And if this part of their translation isn't clear enough, here's their translation
from John 20:28: "In answer Thomas said to him: "My Lord and my God"
and Jesus didn't rebuke Thomas for worshipping Him, and by correctly affirming Jesus as
the Jewish Jehovah of the Bible!

Clearly these verses were missed out by the heretics Westcott and Hort missed!

In fact, before I move on, please permit me to share
the following and important facts about the Anglican apostates Westcott and Hort,
whose Greek text the Jehovah's Witnesses proudly use, both of whom were secret Jesuit
provocateurs and rank liberals!

"The danger of our church [Anglicanism] is from atheism, not
Romanism."

"I am inclined to think that no such state as Eden ever
existed."

"But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin…my
feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable."

"Had I been alone, I could have knelt there for
hours [at a Marian shrine]."

"I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship
and 'Jesus'-worship have very much in common in their causes and their results."

Source: There is much more information about this
dubious couple of liberal/secret Catholics, which can be found in David W. Daniels, Did
the Catholic church give us the Bible, 2012?

Please also see their New World Translation also affirms Christ's eternal existence.
For example, Is. 9:6, calls Jesus the Mighty God, the eternal Father.
And in John 5:18; 14:9; Phil. 2:6 His equality to God the Father is clearly
found.

It should also be pointed out that in John 1:23, John the Baptist quotes Isaiah 40:3
and tells his audience that he had come to prepare the way for the Lord, that being Jehovah
God, who it turned out be Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.

And Paul writes in Philippians 2:11: "And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Yet this is taken from Isaiah 45:23, where it speaks of Jehovah God. So it should
be obvious that Jesus is Jehovah God.

"IamAlphaandOmega, the beginningand the ending,saith the Lord,whichis, andwhichwas, andwhich is
to come, the Almighty"
(Rev. 1:8; Is. 41:4).

Had Jesus not been eternal, He couldn't claim this title
as His own.

Here are also two verses, both from the NWT:"I,
Jehovah, the First One; and with the last ones I am the same" (Is. 41:4).

"I am the First
and the Last, and the living one; and I became dead" (Rev. 1:17-18).

So it clearly
looks to me that there is only one God in the Bible, and that God is Jesus Christ!

May
I say that it should be evident to any honest and open-minded individual that the
writers of the New Testament made is abundantly clear that Jesus is Jehovah God in
the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16). To deny this will result in one spending eternity in Hell.

And
here’s emphatic proof of this, found vividly in the King James Bible:

"I
said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that
I am he [GOD], ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24)

That Jesus is Michael the archangel (Aid
to Bible Understanding, p. 920).

The Greek word for firstborn is Prototokos. Whenever
this is used of Jesus, it always means in pre-eminence or position of rank (Rom.
8:29), not a physical birth.

Israel, although not the oldest nation on the earth, is called the firstborn of God
(Ex. 4:22; Jer. 31:9).

King David, the youngest of Jesse's
sons, is called God's firstborn (Ps. 89:20-27).

No angel in the word of God ever received worship, love and obedience like Jesus
did (Heb. 1:6-9).

In Matthew's 4:7, Jesus said to Satan twice: "It is written
again, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God(NWT, p. 1219).

The Witnesses call Jesus a created spirit; the Muslims call Him a Muslim prophet;
the Jews reject Him; the Mormons say He is Lucifer's spirit brother, and the Catholic
church degrades Him with their appalling transubstantiation.

Yet the Bible clearly states that He is the world's only Saviour, and to be the world's
only Saviour, He must be God Almighty, for only God can redeem sinful man! Jesus Christ,
in His full majesty, is Jehovah God; El Elyon; El Olam; El Roi El; Shaddai; Adonai
(Is. 43:11; Matt. 1:21), and this is what the true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has
always believed and stood for over 2,000 years now.

Jesus was not crucified on a cross but on a stake.

Matt. 27:40: "And saying, Thou
that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be
the Son of God, come down from the cross."

Col.
1:20: "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by
him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in
earth, or things in heaven."

Jesus was resurrected a divine being (J Rutherford, The
Harp of God, p, 165).

After Jesus'
resurrection He was raised using His original human body. He was not some super spirit creature,
much like the error the disciples initially made in Luke 24:39, but was fully human
and fully God (John 20:27). The only reason His disciples had previously been unable
to recognize Him was because of their lack of faith in His glorious resurrection (Mark
16:11-14; Luke 24:16; 24:31).

This event clearly demonstrates how the Trinity worked in harmony with one another,
while working independently:

1) John 2:20- 21: Jesus said He would raise up His own body after three days
(God the Son)

2) Romans 8:11: The Spirit raised Jesus from the dead (Holy Ghost)

3) Galatians 1:1: God raised Him up (God the Father)

Jehovah (Latin) or Elohiym (Hebrew) [~Yhla] is only singular with no connotations
for plurality (Harold J. Berry, 1990.)

Jehovah or Elohim can in some places be plural (Gen.1: 26; 3:22; 11:7), and also singular
(Matt. 3:17; John 12:28).

They do not believe that God is a Triune being. Rutherford said that Satan is behind
Trinitarianism: "Sincere persons who want to know the true God and serve him find
it a bit difficult to love and worship a complicated, freakish-looking, three-headed
God. The clergy who inject such ideas will contradict themselves in the very next
breath by stating that God made man in his own image; for certainly no one has ever
seen a three-headed human creature" (Let God Be True, p.101-102).

Man is made in the image of God (Deut. 6:4; Is. 43:10-12), and has a triune
makeup:

"And the very God of
peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess.
5:23).

The Trinity is not some satanic, pagan or even Catholic doctrine, but very much a
Biblical one (Ps. 2:7; Pro. 30:4; Is. 49:6; Matt. 3:16-17).

The Holy Spirit is renamed God's active force, and thus is an impersonal being (What
Does God Require of Us, 1997).

The Holy Spirit is a real Person, with real characteristics (Eph.
4:30; 1 Thess. 5:19), and is deity (Acts 5:3-4).

In John 14:16, Jesus promised to send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. There are two
Greek words for the word 'another.' The first is allos, the second is heteros. Allos
means, another of exactly the same kind, and heteros means another of a different
kind. Therefore, the Greek word used of the Holy Spirit, in all texts, is allos, the
same kind, God Almighty, the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9).

They use the Westcott and Hort corrupt translation of the Scriptures! (New
World Translation).

This perverted 'bible' has changed over three
hundred verses to support their peculiar doctrines. As a result of this
tampering, it blasphemes the glorious doctrines and truths, such as the deity of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and His eternal being: references (John 1:1; 8:58; I Tim. 2:6;
Acts 10:36; Col. 1:16-17; 2:9-10).

When baptising new converts by full immersion, their formula is: In the name of the
Father, the Son and the Spirit directed organisation. They will now become work slaves
until Armageddon (1 June 1985, Watchtower magazine.)

People are to be baptized using the Lord's formula of Matt. 28:19: "In the name of
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;" anything else isn't Biblical but man-made!

That Adam only died a temporary death in the Garden of Eden.

In Genesis 2:17 God warned Adam that if
he ate of the tree of life, he would surely die. There is nothing in Scripture to
suggest that this wasn't temporary, but eternal. However, Adam was granted a very
long lifespan, in which he and Eve would populate the earth.

That salvation is not a gift of God, but one must work to earn it, and may,
if not caught door knocking when Armageddon arrives, lose it. They have absolutely
no assurance of salvation whatsoever, as one member told me this personally. Even
during the millennial reign of Christ, they can still fail God, and end up in the
lake of fire.

This doctrine is almost similar
to Roman Catholicism, for they too have no Biblical understanding or assurance of
salvation. Yet if one takes the time to study the following passages, they will soon
see that salvation is instant (Mark 16:16; Luke 23:43; John 3:16; 5:24; Acts 16:31;
Rom. 10:9), and eternal (John 10:29; Acts 7:59- 60; Rom. 8:1; 38- 39).

In Romans 4:1-8, the apostle Paul
takes great care and time in teaching how a sinner is made righteous before a Holy
God:

"What shall
we saythen that Abrahamourfather, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found? ForifAbraham were justifiedbyworks, he hath whereof
to glory;butnotbeforeGod. Forwhatsaith the scripture? AbrahambelievedGod,and it
was counted unto himforrighteousness.Now to
him that workethis the rewardnotreckonedofgrace,butofdebt.But to
him that workethnot,butbelievethon him
that justifieth the ungodly,hisfaith is countedforrighteousness.Even asDavidalsodescribeth the blessedness of
the man, unto whomGodimputethrighteousnesswithoutworks,Saying, Blessed are
they whoseiniquities are forgiven, andwhosesins are covered. Blessed is
the man to whom the Lordwillnotimputesin."

A sinner is only saved through God's unmerited grace, and absolutely by nothing else
(Rom. 3:20; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8).

That a person has one of three possible destinations: 1) The anointed Jehovah's Witness
(144,000) will reign with Jehovah God in heaven for all eternity.

The concept that only 144,000 will reign with Jehovah God comes from Rev. 7:4; 14:1.
However, upon careful reading it soon becomes obvious that the 144,000 are actually
Jewish male virgins from the twelve tribes of Israel, sealed by the Holy Spirit for
special evangelism, during the Great Tribulation, not the Church age. Therefore, the
Witnesses are incorrect to assume that this group refers to them, for Jehovah's Witnesses
are predominantly Gentiles, not Jews, and the Tribulation has yet to occur.

The rest of the faithful Witnesses (not the 144,000) will live forever on paradise
earth, but only after immense effort and proselytising on behalf of the faithful Witness.

Two Scriptures are used to teach that endurance and perseverance
are essential for entrance to Heaven/salvation (Matt. 10:22; 24:13).

First, the word endure
can also be translated to overcome. In this case, 1 John 5:4 states:"For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith."

Therefore
to overcome Satan/the world can be synonymous with Jesus' clear teaching that the
child of God must overcome the evil one, and this the apostle Paul affirms has already
occurred for all regenerated children of God: "Not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved
us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which
he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That
being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
life" (Tit. 3:5-7).

Second,
Matthew 10:22 and 24:13 could also be interpreted to refer to those living during
the Great Tribulation, and therefore their endurance would be essential for them to
escape the deception, not into order to be saved from their sins. But again, as we
are still living in the Church age, the latter explanation doesn't relate to anybody
living today.

Those people who are not members of the Watchtower organization will be destroyed
by Jehovah God and cease to exist. There is no concept of eternal punishment or hell
in Watchtower theology, annihilation is the destiny for many (Let God Be True,
p. 90-95).

Jesus gave a very clear and vivid command in Matt. 7:13,14: "Enter
ye inat the straitgate:forwide is
the gate,andbroad is
the way, that leadethtodestruction,andmany there bewhich go inthereat:Becausestrait is
the gate,andnarrow is
the way,whichleadethuntolife,andfew there be that findit."

With the doctrine of Hell so clearly affirmed above, please see the following passage
of Scripture, where the apostle Paul spoke of eternal punishment, never annihilation.

"And to you who are
troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe
(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day" (2 Thess. 1:7-10).

Some years ago I witnessed
and shared the above account from 2 Thess. with a Jehovah's Witness while on the streets
of Manchester. And I told him that the term "punished with everlasting destruction"
can also be translated to tortured with everlasting destruction. At
first he would not accept this and returned to active membership with the JWs.
18 months later, he left them and got born again! Now he has one of the most
popular YouTube channels in the UK, which helps JWs all over the world come to
the true and saving knowledge of the Biblical Jesus Christ, and not what the carnal
mind of Charles Taze Russell taught and advocated during his lifetime!

Three times in Mark's Gospel alone, Jesus said the worm would never die, 9:44; 9:46;
9:48.

In Matthew 8:12 the Lord said the following:"But the children of
the kingdom shall be cast outintoouterdarkness:there shall beweepingandgnashing of teeth."

Revelation 20:15: "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire."

Hell is not some Satanic or even apostate doctrine, but a clear and freighting one
for the unrepentant sinner to get to grips with! And please remember, the Lord spoke
of Hell more times than Heaven!

Hell is not considered a literal place of torment but a condition (J Rutherford, The
Harp of God, p. 51-52). On p. 54, Rutherford states: "Jehovah
at no time employs torture but he denounces such doctrine as an abomination in his
site."

This statement once again is not Biblically accurate. As already demonstrated
in the above rebuttal, Hell is spoken of as not only being real, but lasting forever:

"Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels:For
I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I
was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in
prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they
also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger,
or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And
these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous
into life eternal" (Matt. 25-41-46).

Please also see the following verses that affirm Hell is a real and conscious
place (Eze. 32:19-32; Dan. 12:2; Luke 16:19-31; Rev. 20:10.)

Therefore if the sinner is unwilling to receive Jesus' free gift of salvation (Acts
16:31), than God's perfect justice is accomplished (Ps. 76:10), and the unrepentant
sinner is solely to blame for his/her eternal abode in Hell fire (Deut. 32:3-5).

My heartfelt prayer would
be for people to wake up and realize that Hell is real, but was never made for mankind,
but for the devil and his fallen angels (Matt. 25:41). Yet man by his sinful lifestyle
sends himself to Hell. The Bible is very clear that God takes no pleasure in the death
of the wicked (Eze. 33:11); but that the Lord is not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9).

That the soul has no life within itself. Once a person dies the soul ceases to exist.
The body, however, sleeps/awaits in the grave for the resurrection (Let God Be
True).

There are two ways to try and interrupt this understanding
from the Watchtower. First, if it refers to the unrepentant dead, than the Scripture
they will use to prove this would be Ecclesiastes 9:5. Yet with the wider understanding
of Scripture, one can easily interpret it to mean that the dead have no knowledge
of what is occurring on earth, while they are physically dead.

We know from Luke 16:19-31
that the rich man in Hell was conscious of his surroundings, but was unaware of what
was occurring on the earth. All he wanted to do was return and warn his unrepentant
family members of the horrors that awaited them.

Second, there are at
least four passages in the New Testament alone that contradict the claim that the
soul has no life/consciousness prior to the resurrection (Luke 23:43;2
Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:21-25; 2 Tim. 4:8).

The apostle Paul was very
much of the mind that when he died he would go straight into the presence of the Lord
(2 Cor. 5:8).

There is no purgatory either. Heaven or Hell, the choice is yours!

Hidden shame

Please see a brief transcript from the BBC1 Panorama programme that aired in the UK
on the 14th July 2002: "Despite there being a total of 23,720 recorded cases of sexual
abuse in the USA, Canada, and Europe in the secret database of Jehovah's Witnesses,
one of their members stated:

"Focusing on numbers isn't important."

To date, campaigners from the US organisation Silent Lambs have heard from
5,000 victims. Bill Bowen (former Witness) is now calling for JWs to 'come clean':
"Once they're found out, it causes their own members to be deeply disturbed," he said.

The above transcript shines some much-needed light into world of the Watchtower organisation!

There have also been numerous occasions in the Watchtower's history, in which members
have coached their children to lie under oath during divorce custody battles. All
this apparently sanctioned and encouraged from their HQ in Brooklyn (please
see The Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, 17 October
1989 and The Spokan Review, 5 October 1996).

The Leadership

Charles
Taze Russell

(1852-1916)

Originally a Presbyterian but
then joined the Congregationalists. Disillusioned with both groups he opted out and
launched his own religion.

He was
divorced by his wife on the grounds of adultery after she discovered he was having
an affair with his young female servant (The Brooklyn Daily Newspaper, 19
February 1912, p.18).

He
appeared in court three times during his life and each time lied under oath (The
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Rev. John Ross and the Eagle; Some Facts and More Facts
About the Self-Styled, Pastor Charles T. Russell, p.17).

A full copy
of this 5-hour transcript from 1913 is also held on file at the JW's headquarters
in Brooklyn. Staunton was Ross' attorney and "Judge" Rutherford was Russell's:

Staunton):
Do you know the Greek alphabet?(Russell):
Oh yes.(Staunton):
Can you tell me the correct letters if you see them?(Russell):
Some of them; I might make a mistake on some of them.(Staunton):
Would you tell me the names of those on top of the page, page 447, I have got here?(Russell):
Well, I don't know that I would be able to.(Staunton):
You can't tell what those letters are? Look at them and see if you know.(Russell):
My way [he was interrupted at this point and not allowed to explain].(Staunton):
Are you familiar with the Greek language?(Russell):
No.(Staunton):
Is it true you were never ordained?(Russell):
It is not true.(Staunton):
Now, you never were ordained by a bishop, clergyman, presbytery, council, or any body
of men living?(Russell),
after a long pause, I never was.

This fascinating and damning transcript comes from a court date on the 17 March 1913,
in Ontario, Canada. (Rev. J Ross, Some Facts and more Facts About the Self-Styled
Pastor). Not only had Russell twice contradicted himself under oath, but affirmed
that he had no understanding whatsoever of the language that the Holy Spirit used
to compose the New Testament.

Visited
Egypt on at least one occasion. He very much believed in pyramidology,
a spiritualistic religion. He wrote books on this and they are classed as occultist
(The Watchtower, 15 November 1928, p. 344).

Believedinastrology and horoscopes (The
Watchtower, 15 November 1928, p 344).

Recommended a book Angels and Women which
was apparently written by a medium.

Confusion surrounds his death in 1916.
Some claim he died on board a transcontinental train, others in a hospital bed or
the Illuminati murdered him.

Masonic symbols can clearly be seen on his gravestone, and the
inscription, Laodicean Church, the apostate Church, should cause concern to
Watchtower members! (The Laodicean Church, of the seven Churches in the book of Revelation,
is seen as the final and apostate church before Christ's welcomed return to a fallen
and unrepentant earth).

Joseph
(Judge) Rutherford

(1869-1942)

Came from a strict Baptist background.

Was married with one son.

Rumoured to have been a freemason.

Was an alcoholic attorney, who used the title "Judge" to further his 'credentials.'

Took control of this religion after a power struggle, and forcibly removed four elected
members of the board of directors, and then swapped them for his own loyalists, thus
he became the second leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Invented the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931.

Wrote a letter to Hitler praising him for his anti-Anglo/America campaign, and his
plan to exterminate the Jews (Proclaimers, p. 693).

Was very intimidating towards younger members of the
Watchtower (The Watchtower, 1 August 1994, p. 23).

Was a prolific literary writer and would churn out one book a year. In total he authored
over one hundred books, which have been translated into over eighty languages.

On at least three occasions, he was cited for contempt of court (Morgan County
Book 13, p. 251 for 8 August 1894 and Cooper County Book 2, p. 376 on
15 May 1895).

Sued, along with the board of Jehovah's Witness directors, for libel in 1939 by an
Olin Moyle. They had to pay damages to Moyle of $25,000 (Moyle v. Rutherford
et al., 261 App. Div. 968; 26 N.Y.S. 2d 860).

Rumoured to have encouraged alcoholic smuggling during the era of prohibition.

Apparently turned a blind eye to homosexual activities within the Watchtower organisation,
and a brothel in New York male Witnesses.

Owned property in New York, London, and Germany and two Cadillac's,
and one convertible sedan.

Died on 8 January 1942, some say in the grounds of Beth-Sarim?

His wife Mary died in 1962.

Little information is known on Malcolm their son.

Nathan
Homer Knorr

(1905-1977)

Was also involved in spiritualism.

Would be credited for leading the New World Translation committee in 1950-51, under
the watchful eye of a Roman Catholic priest, Johannes
Greber. Greber was a spiritualist, and medium. Incredibly such untrained scholars,
felt compelled to undertake such a sacred task of translating the Greek into English.

There isn't one distinguished Bible scholar in the world that condones of their heretical
bible translation. On the contrary, many have not only distanced themselves from the
Watchtower, but some have even reprimanded the Witnesses for printing articles claming
well-known Christian scholars affirmed their 'bible' to be authentic and reliable.

Under his leadership, the number of Witnesses grew from 113,000
to 1 million in 80 countries.

Frederick
W. Franz

(1893-1992)

Under Franz, the Witnesses accelerated their proselytising techniques around the globe.
This man is credited for the immense amount of literature that they print. Jehovah's
Witnesses churn out more literature than any other group of people in the entire world.

Amazingly
however on 24 November 1954 Franz would too find himself being cross-examined under
oath concerning his authority and biblical expertise:

Q:
Have you also made yourself familiar with Hebrew?

A: (Franz)
Yes.

Q: So that
you have substantial linguistic apparatus at your command?

A: Yes,
for use in my biblical work.

Q: I think
you are able to read and follow the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese,
German, and French?

A: Yes.

Q: You,
yourself, read and speak Hebrew, do you?

A: I do
not speak Hebrew.

Q: You
do not?

A: No.

Q: Can
you, yourself, translate that into Hebrew?

A: Which?

Q: That
forth verse in the second chapter of Genesis?

A: You mean
here?

Q.
Yes.

A.
No.

Source:
Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults, 2003, p. 93.

According to Hebrew scholars, this verse in Genesis 2:4 is not particularly hard to
translate, especially not for someone who has sworn under oath that he speaks 'seven
languages' (The Divine Name That Will Endure, Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society.)

It should also be pointed out that Franz too was rumoured to have Masonic loyalties
(Rhodes scholar) and Spiritualistic interests.

Milton
G. Henschel

(1920-2003)

In 1996 Henschel, his wife and others travelled to Malta. Upon arrival they checked
in to a beautiful and expensive five star hotel.

During their lavish trip to Malta, local Witnesses complained that Henschel had spent
little time visiting local Witnesses. One such Witness wrote to Henschel complaining
that the average wage in Malta was very low, while Henschel's hotel bill was $117
per day.

Henschel tried to cover up Rutherford's and the Witnesses admiration for Hitler (Dr
M. James Penton, Open Letter, 11 August 1995).

Current president is Don Adams (1925-)

False prophecies

Rutherford wrote a book called Millions Now Living Will Never Die. In this
book, he prophesied that Jesus would return along with king David, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. Therefore a house needed to be built to accommodate their return. In this
book Rutherford wrote: "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the
Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914. We may confidently expect that 1925
will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old to
the condition of human perfection" (The
Watchtower,15/7/24, p. 89.)However, their false
interpretation of the Second Coming never materialised, and therefore Rutherford moved
into this luxurious mansion at 4440 Braeburn Road, San Diego, California, which had
cost the Watchtower $25,000.

Please remember this was during the 1920s depression. It was quietly sold in 1948.
However, ex-Witness, Frank J. Toth, believes this property was predominately built
to hide away their drunken president.

In the early 1940's they declared that
Armageddon was imminent and would end the Second World War, defeat the Germans and
her allies, and then usher in God's long awaited rule on earth (The
Watchtower,12/41). In their book Children, they
suggest that marriages, having children and normal living, be postponed until after
Armageddon.

They later prophesied that God's Millennial Kingdom would commence in 1975. Again,
all plans to continue living normal lives were temporary shelved, i.e., many left
their jobs, sold their homes, and dedicated themselves to continuous proselytising.

In total, Jehovah's Witnesses theocratic machine has falsely predicted the end of
the world five times: 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, 1989.

Between 1975/1976, thousands of American Witnesses left this cult in utter
contempt for the numerous unfulfilled prophecies that never came to pass. Leaders
gave flimsy excuses; dates were amended, but again and again, nothing happened.

For anybody who
wonders what the Bible says about people who make false prophecies, please see Deuteronomy
18:20-21: "But
the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in
my name, which I have not commanded him
to speak , or that shall speak in
the name of othergods, even
that prophet shall die. And
if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which
the LORD hath not spoken."

As we read in the word of God, this sin was so serious that false prophets were to
be killed. One must ask the question: If the Witnesses are Bible-based, and if they
are God's true messengers for today, why weren't Russell or Rutherford stoned for
making false prophecies? Or at least, why weren't they excommunicated?

Witnessing
to Witnesses

Here are some helpful tips for Christians to use when witnessing to Witnesses:

He is trained in a particular doctrinal system.

He is committed to the Society without reservations as God's channel.

He is brainwashed, a fact attested to by many former Witnesses.

He normally rejects being born again; therefore, he cannot give a testimony of an
accomplished personal salvation.

Famous members

In 2003 the pop star Prince joined the Jehovah's Witnesses. He has been seen door
knocking and being driven around to certain houses.

President Eisenhower, but later joined the freemasons. However, according to Billy
Graham's autobiography Just as I am, p. 205, he states that Eisenhower was
saved prior to his death.

Tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams.

Hank B. Marvin of The Shadows is still very much part of the JW treadmill,
and in his spare time, continues to go door-to-door.

Conclusion

When I first wrote this article in 2004, I made contact with a member of this religion.
This man, an ex-Anglican for 25 years and a now a Witness for 26 years, happily
and unexpectedly agreed to read this article. So I printed it off and posted
it to him via his local Kingdom Hall. (They don't call their places of worship,
churches). The envelope was personally addressed to him and was marked 'private and
confidential.' Several weeks passed, and still no word him from.

Then one Saturday morning I bumped into him on the street. We exchanged brief
pleasantries and then I asked him if had received it. He said emphatically that he
hadn't, and even named an elder in his congregation, who is responsible for all their
post. I reassured him that I had indeed sent it. I could tell he believed me. I should
also say that I believed him when he told me that he hadn't received it.

I told him that it wasn't acceptable for nosey people to interfere with my parcel
or any parcel for that matter, and he agreed with me. Yet what wasn't known to me
at the time, was what Walter Martin penned in his classic, cult buster book: "Witnesses
are not only to isolate themselves from those who were once Witnesses and have been
disfellowshipped or disassociated but also from anyone who is not a Witness and who
attempts to present a view contrary to the Watchtower. No Witness is allowed to read
dissenting material, whether it is written by a disgruntled Jehovah Witness, a disfellowshipped
or disassociated Witness, or someone who have never been a Witness"(The
Kingdom of the Cults, 2003, p. 68).

And this type of behaviour is
clearly affirmed by the Witnesses themselves: "Have
no dealings with apostates...For example, what will you do if you receive a letter
or some literature, open it, and see right away that it is from an apostate? Will
curiosity cause you to read it, just to see what he has to say? You may even reason:
"It won't affect me; I'm too strong in the truth. And besides, if we have the truth,
we have nothing to fear. The truth will stand the test. "In thinking this way, some
have fed their minds upon apostate reasoning and have fallen prey to serious questioning
and doubts" (The Watchtower, 15 March 1986, p. 12).

Did
not the Apostle Paul commend those that used Scripture to check what he told them
(Acts 17:11)? One might be forgiven for concluding that the Witnesses know only too
well that should a saved child of God get the chance to talk to a Witness, real
damage could be done, and that is why they make such a fuss about not allowing their
members to communicate with those outside their sect.

In conclusion
to this sad saga, one cannot help but see some glaring similarities with the old mind-controlling
Russian KGB, for they too were always watching one another and intercepting mail for
their fellow agents, and sadly today, this is exactly what is happening in the cult
of the Jehovah's Witnesses.